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Follow on Google News | SBPLI Announces Award Winners at 13th Annual Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics CompetitionSchool-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. (SBPLI) announced its award winners at the 13th annual Long Island Regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition.
By: PRMG More than 1,200 students from 50 high schools from Long Island, the New York metropolitan area, Pennsylvania and Ohio participated in the competition. Teams received honors and recognition that rewarded design excellence, competitive play, sportsmanship and high-impact partnerships among schools, businesses and communities. “All teams demonstrated tremendous teamwork, gracious professionalism and strategic thinking, but these winners went above and beyond to overcome the challenges of the competition,” With the hope of winning one of several coveted awards, high school students worked with professional mentors to design and build a robot over a six-week timeframe using a kit of parts and a standard set of rules. The students gathered to compete with their robots in this year’s game, “Rebound RumbleSM,” in which two alliances of three teams competed on a 27-by-54-foot playing field with bridges, attempting to earn points by scoring as many basketballs into the hoops as possible. Additional points were earned for balancing robots on the bridges. Winners of the Long Island Regional awards include: AWARD TEAM # TEAM NAME HOMETOWN Musical Performance Award 2872 The Wheatley School Old Westbury, NY Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen 3059 Riverside Engineering & Design High School Yonkers, NY Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award 2875 Cold Spring Harbor High School Cold Spring Harbor, NY Xerox Creativity Award 1751 Comsewogue High School Port Jefferson Station, NY Delphi Engineering Excellence Award 3137 Connetquot Central School District Bohemia, NY Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award 884 Malverne High School Malverne, NY Judge’s Award 1468 Hicksville High School Hicksville, NY Website Award 353 Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Plainview, NY General Motors Industrial Design Award 1796 Queens Vocational and Technical High School Long Island City, NY Coopertition™ 569 W.T. Clarke High School Westbury, NY Motorola Quality Award 527 Plainedge High School North Massapequa, NY Johnson & Johnson Gracious Professionalism 358 Hauppauge High School Hauppauge, NY Chrysler Team Spirit Award 353 Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Plainview, NY Rookie Inspiration Award 4006 Central Islip Senior High School Central Islip, NY Rookie All Star Award ** 3950 North Shore High School Glen Head, NY Highest Rookie Seed Award 4006 Central Islip Senior High School Central Islip, NY Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award 329 Patchogue-Medford High School Medford, NY Regional Finalist #1 3137 Connetquot Central School District Bohemia, NY Regional Finalist #2 329 Patchogue-Medford High School Medford, NY Regional Finalist #3 353 Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Plainview, NY Regional Winner #1** 527 Plainedge High School North Massapequa, NY Regional Winner #2** 1796 Queens Vocational and Technical High School Long Island City, NY Regional Winner #3** 870 Southold Junior Senior High School Southold, NY Regional Engineering Inspiration Award** 2638 Great Neck South High School Great Neck, NY Regional Chairman’s Award* ** 564 Longwood High School Middle Island, NY * The Chairman’s Award is the most prestigious award of the event and recognizes the team that embodies the goals and purpose of FIRST and best represents a model for other teams to emulate. ** These teams are eligible to participate in the FRC Championship that will take place April 28-29 at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO. SBPLI named Robert V. Kukta, Associate Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, and Frank Saladino, a former Technology Teacher at Plainview-Old Bethpage High School, as its Volunteers of the Year. The Fred Breithut Award went to Edwin Meyer of Brentwood High School Robotics Team #3460. Robert Gandalfo, mentor for the Plainedge High School Robotics Team #527, received the Regional Woodie Flowers Award. Winners of the Dean’s List Finalist Award were Emily Stern of the Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Robotics Team #353 and Joshua Graber of the Great Neck South High School Robotics Team #2638. Major sponsors for this year’s competition were SBPLI, Inc., Motorola Solutions Foundation, Festo Corporation, Hofstra University, School Construction Consultants, Inc., BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Stony Brook University, Farmingdale State College, Schenck Trebel Corporation, Mr. Scott Matovich and Family, and Estée Lauder Inc. For more information about SBPLI, visit www.sbpli.org. *** Pictures of winning teams and award winners are available via e-mail and upon request. **** Descriptions of the awards and their criteria are available upon request. # # # School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. (SBPLI) was founded in 1984 by Fred Breithut with the goal of developing partnerships between local high schools and businesses that would provide students with practical experience and curriculum development, while helping the business community develop its future workforce. Over 100 partnerships have been formed. In 1999, SBPLI brought the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics program to Long Island, where eight high school teams participated. Since then, the FIRST robotics program has grown to 50 teams, with over 2,300 students participating in FIRST Robotics and LEGO League programs on Long Island each year. The 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition was held at Hofstra University on March 29-31, 2012. End
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